Feeding Littles Lunches: 75+ No-Stress Lunches Everyone Will Love: Meal Planning for Kids

This has been super helpful! I am a stay at home mom and trying to figure out 3 meals a day for my toddler can be tricky sometimes! This gave me so many ideas and I feel like I never run out of options! Definitely recommend!

This book has helped me come up with healthy lunch ideas for my 2 year old. I would recommend for anyone looking to change lunches up or even come up with healthier alternatives!

There are a lot of reviews on what a great book this is. If you are like me, you’re thinking “great, but my family is different. Will it work for us?” This review is for the parents of selective (picky) eaters. My boys both have autism. They probably eat less than 20 foods. Even most kid-food they don’t touch. So why do I love this book? ❤️First of all, if you follow Feeding Littles you know there is no judgment. It is really hard to get my boys to eat something other than a PB&J (three times a day). I love that the authors “get it” that your kiddo might not eat some things, and it is not a reflection on you as a parent. I struggle so much with providing balanced food choices but also food my kids will eat. Then there is a lot of text with tons of helpful info in the front half of the book. They explain their lunch formula to help you guide you to packing a great lunch with whatever you have at home. I really appreciated the sections on picky eaters as well as how the cafeteria environment can affect what your kid does/does not eat. They walk through examples of a lunch and how you can modify it each day to mix it up just a little. One example used PB&J which is the safe food of choice for my son.The rest of the book is sample lunches. Real actual photos of lunches. There are so many photos! My boys can be super selective but books and pictures help them get excited about a new food. Some families just put a small portion of a new food on a plate, we start with just looking at a photo. It is a great way to talk about the texture and appearance of a food and prepare to taste it. I can show the picture and they can point to what they want or what they are willing to try. Choices and questions can overwhelm them, so a visual picture they can point to is SUPER HELPFUL. Lunches they “want” get packed and “willing to try” we plan to introduce on weekends when their safe foods are nearby. Did I mention there is a “picky eating tip” on EVERY SINGLE LUNCH!! 🤯 GF/DF/SF? Yup there are allergy swaps on most lunches as well.Having a book where my boys can point to something to try in their lunch AND takes little prep work on my part… it is truly a gift. I hope that this review gives you the confidence to give this book a try. If you are anything like me, adding even two new foods to the lunchbox is worth its weight in gold.

I want to preface my review by saying I've bought so many lunchbox recipe books only to be disappointed because they featured recipes my picky kids would never actually eat.My oldest started Kindergarten this month and I've been faced with a new dilemma- packing lunches that are healthy, appeal to his picky nature, and are still tasty cold as there's no option to heat his food up. And he's expressed disgust with the warm food the cafeteria serves- so that's out for now.I pre‐ordered this book with little preview of the recipes inside but was prepared for another dud. I was expecting to return the book before it even arrived based on past experiences. I was wrong.This book is EXACTLY what I needed. It's not a recipe book. It's a suggestion book filled with so many great combinations my tired brain wouldn't think of by itself. Best of all, the suggestions are easy and realistic. It features foods that are in a standard fridge/pantry and food picky kids would actually eat.Important note: this is not a recipe book.It's an idea idea book! There are millions of recipes on the internet for free, and that's not what I needed. Sometimes a tired parent doesn't know what they don't know and just needs a single place with healthy food pairing ideas. This book is that and more.I already love this book so much. I hadn't heard of the authors before and bought this book with my own money. As someone who rarely leaves reviews, the fact that I felt compelled to write review this because the book exceeded my expectations says a lot.I highly recommend this book for parents who need healthy, delicious ideas but don't want to break the bank and can't (or don't want to) spend excessive time preparing gourmet lunches or cutting foods into cutesy shapes for a lunchbox. I will definitely be checking out the rest of these authors' offerings.

I’ve followed Feeding Littles on facebook for several years and really feel like they’re a valuable team - as professional experts on feeding/nutrition, but also as fellow parents. Tons of tips on feeding picky eaters, babies/toddlers, along with…regular eaters.During the year, our school system provides free meals countywide. But we were panicked when summer camp began and we were faced with the daunting task of packing lunches every day, and trying to maintain some level of health in what we were sending. Alas, it was mostly an uncrustable, fruit, some crunchy pre-packaged snacks, and a dessert. But what about if you can’t send peanut products? What if your kid gets bored with eating the same thing every day? THIS is when I wanted this book, and reluctantly had to wait until after the free lunches resumed for it to be released, but we made it!I’m thrilled to have this book. It might even help us adults pack our own lunches! It’s just so easy to get into a rut, overwhelmed, and not know what else to try…but these are SO many ideas to inspire. We’re lucky enough to have a pretty adventurous eater at home, but even our daughter still has days where she won’t eat her ‘favorite’ foods. Feeling Littles is so reassuring, relatable, and refreshing NORMAL. There are cookbooks out there, but this isn’t it - and that’s GOOD because so many people are intimidated by cooking and this is so accessible.Gorgeous, appetizing, full-color photos. Look through it with your kids! Find new foods to explore. And share with the grandparents when they ask what to feed them when they visit 🙂